Bell Ringer : Milhouse’s Probability of Baldness Fill in the Punnett square and select the correct answer below. Milhouse is extremely worried that because.

Bell Ringer :Milhouse’s Probability of BaldnessFill in the Punnett square and select the correct answer below.

Milhouse is extremely worried that because his dad is bald he will also be bald. Use your Punnett square skills to determine the probability of him being bald. Milhouse is aware that his dad is heterozygous for baldness (Bb) while his mom does not carry the baldness gene and so she is homozygous for no baldness (bb). Remember baldness is dominant (B) while no baldness is recessive (b).

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What is the probability that Millhouse will be bald?a. 0% b. 25 % c. 50 % d. 75 %

B b

b

b

Day 2- Bell Ringer: Which characteristics are inherited?

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Problem Two: Incomplete Dominance

Homer has decided he wants to go into the dog breeding business and wants to use Santa’s Little Helper. Santa’s Little Helper is heterozygous light brown (BB’), a combination of dark brown(B) and white (B’). Homer wants to get puppies that are dark brown, light brown and white and has two choices of dogs he can mate with Santa’s Little Helper: Penelope, who is also light brown (BB’) or Samantha, who is white (B’B’). Create Punnett Squares for each dog to help Homer figure out the answer.

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Which dog would be best to mate with Santa’s Little Helper to get the most different colored puppies?

a. Penelope b. Samantha c. Neither one d. Either one (same odds)

Penelope

Samantha

B B’

B

B’

B’ B’

B

B’

Problem Three: Codominance

Itchy and Scratchy created two brand new breeds of flowers: one lime green (GG) and one bright orange (OO). Green is codominant with orange. Itchy and Scratchy know that because of codominance, if they cross these two plants, the flowers should be both green and orange. If they cross these two plants, how many will be both green and orange if they grow ten plants?

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3. How many out of 10 will be orange and green?a. 0 b. 5 c. 7 d. 10

G G

O

O

Problem Four: Multiple Alleles Mr. Burns is in desperate need of a blood

transfusion but unfortunately has the rare blood type OO and needs a donor that is also OO. He offers a reward to anyone who could help him (enter Homer). Homer knows unfortunately that his blood type is heterozygous type A (AO) and that Marge is heterozygous type B (BO). What is the probability that one of the Simpson’s children will have the blood type to match Mr. Burns?

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4. What is the likelihood that one of the Simpson children has the OO blood type?a. 0 % b. 25 % c. 50% d. 75%

A O

B

O

Problem Five: Sex-linked Traits

Dr. Hibbert is treating a young Springfield couple who are having a child. The parents are worried that since the mom is a carrier for the disorder of color blindness (XXc ), which is linked only to the female sex chromosome Xc , that the child will have color blindness as well. The father does not have color blindness (XY) which is the dominant gene. What are the odds that the child will NOT have color blindness?

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X Xc

X

Y

What are the odds that the Springfield couple will have a child that will not be colorblind?

a. 0% b.25% c. 50% d. 75%

Problem Six: Dihybrid Cross

Chief Wiggum and his wife are talking about having another child, giving Ralph another brother or sister. What are the chances that Ralph’s sibling will have blue hair like their parents as well as straight hair like Ralph?

The following are the genotypes of the parents B=Blue, b=black, C=Curly, c=straight.

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Chief Wiggum: Heterozygous curly = CcHeterozygous Blue Hair = Bb

Ralph’s mom: Heterozygous curly = CcHeterozygous Blue Hair = Bb

CB Cb cB cb

CB

Cb

cB

cb

6. How many out of 16 will have blue, straight hair?a. 3 b. 6 c. 9 d.16